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delichon on Nov 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: List of books that will induce a mindfuck

I appreciate that Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is in the same list. It's a sort of balance, expounding on the converse ideology. You can play mindfuck ping pong between the two. Cheers for the author's open mind, without which mindfuckery is at best foreplay.

smitty1e on Nov 28, 2024 [–]

I've slogged through both "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". Her model of human nature is soulless, IMO.

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